Quotes About Solitude

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I'd love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn't bother me to be as alone as a tree on the plains. My leaves would be like no other tree's.

I never said to you: come back. Each time that you left forever, I lowered my head and looked at your left hand, I looked at the white carpet in front of the divan on which we were sitting, I didn't say the word, there is no circumstance, then I raised my eyes and looked out the window at the world that was moving away with the solemn slow pace of an ocean liner

A true solitude is not unbearable since it allows for otherness.

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

Go away...I'm alright.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 689

After that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet soap which Helen had put in my bag. I have never been able to use that soap since. Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife, and to the feeling I had then. It was a dull, empty ache which never really went away.

one of his luxuries was to wake up in the middle of the night so that he could turn over and go to sleep again.

I used up most of my passions and energies during the years I've mentioned, and though I don't talk much about it, the chief thing I've asked from the world since then is to leave me alone.

What most observers failed to perceive in him was something quite bafflingly simple—a love of quietness, contemplation, and being alone.

suspicion had sometimes been current that he really was as unruffled as he looked, and that whatever happened, he did not give a damn. But this, too, like the laziness, was an imperfect interpretation. What most observers failed to perceive in him was something quite bafflingly simple—a love of quietness, contemplation, and being alone.

I live in my own little world. But its ok, I have a psychiatric disorder named after me." Quarantine.

You have to love. You have to feel. Even when you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt. Because solitude will break you.

There are times when alone is the best place to be.

Always take a stand for what is right. And If you end up standing alone, then dammit, stand alone.

I will never be bored as long as my thoughts are with me.

I suppose I could understand, that it's sad to forget. But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten.

I simply will never be bored as long as my thoughts are with me.

I'm a loner, not because I enjoy solitude. It's because I have tried to blend into this world and people continue to disappoint me.

Know this. "It's hard being the one alone but even harder to be the one who stays.

Being alone and in peace is better than being among people who will stab you in back and say all manner of things about you when you turn your back...

Hello loneliness my old friend. I've come to say goodbye. They broke me in an unexpected way, with that hug.

I am my own best friend. Spending time alone is my safe haven from all the hurt and hate in the world.